Looking for sentences and phrases with the word septenary? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Messiaen suggested that Salzmann should return to Paris on about 14 April in order to go through the score for the second septenary and take the material back to Lisbon.
All these gigantic septenary processes, all septuple manifestations of life, always have had as their basis the three primary forces: positive, negative and neutral.
Under this holistic view, quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, and denary sources would be realized some day.
Examples from Classical Literature
The septenary line, however, in its strict form admits only of monosyllabic caesura and disyllabic ending.
In either arrangement the relationship of the metre to the septenary verse comes clearly out.
In Modern English stanzas of this kind, consisting of septenary verses, are of rare occurrence.
The four-stressed long lines sometimes alternate with Alexandrine and septenary verses.
It is septenary in constitution, as may be seen in its vibrations expressed in color and sound.
Chapman, in his translation of Homer, often uses it in septenary verses as well as in five-foot iambic verses.
In Modern English the septenary has been extensively used, both in long and in short rhyming lines.
In this specimen we have the septenary without rime, a rare form.
The shorter, Septenary part of the stanza represents the frons, the tail-rhyme stanza, the versus.
